Stepping back just a tad from an individual's perspective, you'll notice that your job and salary depend much more on the team's collective assets than on personal negotiation prowess. And those assets hinge on the cash flow, which can easily be snagged by the first stone of indifference towards written proposals, specifications, and contracts. Here's how we tackle this issue...
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Today marks the historic transition of Ethereum to a greener mode of operation, which, besides energy savings, brings crucial lessons for the tech industry on developer misconceptions and complexities, as well as enthusiasm, community, and embracing risk.
Now a cult classic, Zelensky's speech declaring he needs "ammunition, not a ticket out of Kyiv" painted a vivid picture of how Ukrainians will stand up to the Russians. Support from the West and sanctions soon followed, but a faction of the crypto community, hiding behind a facade of neutrality, hasn't quite "bitten the bullet" yet.
When Ailen Lee used the word “unicorn” in 2013 to describe startups valued at at least $ 1 billion; she had no idea that 9 years later Marta Šimić Mrzlečki, Emil Tedeschi and even FER dean Gledec would preach that as a nation (and in spite of the environment), we are successful in breeding these unattainable breeds.
Stocks, bonds and similar traditional (CeFi) asset classes have tremendous amounts of metrics or tools at their disposal. On the other hand, it is fairly difficult to grasp valuation, price predictability and various ratios in the crypto world.
We've been hearing about blockchain for years, but rarely got a logical answer to a simple question; Why do we really need cryptocurrencies? However, in times when centralized banks are playing with our confidence, the answer has never been clearer.
In the last article, I pointed out that we failed to take advantage of the potential offered by the second wave of Internet technologies - the Y2K virus was obviously not enough to push us, so is there a chance that this new virus, our cathartic digital transformer Sars-CoV-2, would be a stronger lever in rotating IT sentiment?
For three decades, Croatia’s IT industry has filled state coffers and warmed developer chairs. Nevertheless, politicians ignore domestic potentials, as well as the obvious Internet technology trends.
Overwhelming hyped opportunities like this one can be a big hit or miss. This simple rule book will save you from boxing yourself out!
The beginning of 2021 and the current crypto carousel once again reminded us that social networks are not a good advisor for investing.
You know that popular saying: Why is the app called the Wish? Because you wish you didn't buy that. But is this really true? How come this app got more than 500 million users across the world if it's THAT bad.
Believe it or not, good product titles can be a strong indicator of the seriousness of your eCommerce tactics. In a nutshell, the proper method of writing them is pretty simple, it only requires to stop beating around the bush and get to the point.